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Exploring The World's Top Film Festivals

Explore top global film festivals like Cannes, Sundance, and Venice, showcasing diverse films and talent.

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Venice Biennale: regional Australian theatre company wins prestigious Golden Lion

Geelong’s Back to Back receives lifetime achievement award for work that ‘blows away’ prejudice and ‘makes disability a tool of artistic inquiry’

The Guardian - AU

‘Living in Brixton allowed me not to be judged non-stop’: Zineb Sedira, the artist who makes people feel at home

The child of Algerian parents who grew up in France and found artistic freedom in London on family, ideas of belonging and how she and close friend Sonia Boyce came to be the toast of 2022’s Venice Biennale

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Shah Rukh Khan's 'Jawan' slips to 6th spot as 'The Nun 2', 'A Haunting in Venice' top US box office

Shah Rukh Khan's action-drama 'Jawan' which debuted at the number 4 spot on the list of highest-earning films at the US box office, slipped two spots to number 6 on its second weekend.

The Times of India

Rage against the machine? Why AI may not mean the death of film

Generative technology is Hollywood’s current arch nemesis, but as exhibitors on Venice film festival’s ‘immersive island’ will tell you, AI, VR and XR could lead to a brighter future

The Guardian - UK

Ava DuVernay says she was discouraged from applying to Venice Film Festival: ‘You won’t get in’

Filmmaker is making history as the festival’s first African American woman to compete

The Independent UK

Vanishing act: what happens when stars don’t show up for the red carpet?

As the Sag-Aftra strikes roll on, film schedules are being torn up and A-listers are ditching promotional duties. But what’s a film festival without the talent?

The Guardian - UK

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Film show: Venice Film Festival opens amid Hollywood strikes

Film critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news, including the Venice and Deauville film festivals, the box office hits of the summer "Oppenheimer", "Barbie" and "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning", plus a look at the Franco-Senegalese writer-director Ramata-Toulaye Sy's love story "Banel & Adama", which is…

France 24

Watch: Jury members arrive for 80th Venice International Film Festival

Watch as jury members arrive for the 80th Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday, 30 August.

The Independent UK

Brazil scoops 2023 Golden Lion award for national participation at the Venice Architecture Biennale

The Brazil Pavilion won the prestigious 2023 Golden Lion award for best national participation, as announced at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy this weekend - along with more honours for individual and country-led installations

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Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

The Independent UK

Venice architecture biennale: how pioneering Ghanaian architects reckoned with tropical modernism

As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future”.

The Conversation

Alberta Whittle exhibition opens in Edinburgh

The artist represented Scotland at last year’s Venice Biennale.

The Independent UK

Legacy of racism explored in ‘hugely important’ Alberta Whittle exhibition

It opens in Edinburgh on Saturday.

The Independent UK

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Southeast Asian movies have never been a bigger hit at the local box office – and the boom may dampen streaming growth

After premiering at Venice and picking up a swag of awards on the festival circuit, Indonesian political thriller Autobiography began its theatrical run in its home country this month.

The Guardian - UK

Sonia Boyce’s Venice Biennale winner to be exhibited in UK next year

Feeling Her Way, featuring videos of five black female musicians, to be shown in Margate and Leeds

Radio France Internationale

Alice Diop triumphs at the Venice Film Festival

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Alice Diop. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, and plenty of good music. All that, and the new quiz question, too, so click on the “Audio” arrow…

Evening Standard

And the Oscars go to... why Steven Spielberg and Cate Blanchett are among the frontrunners for awards in 2023

As awards season starts, our expert reveals what the recent film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto tell us about the front runners for next year’s big film prizes in Los Angeles

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The Independent UK

Venice Film Festival comes to a close with awards ceremony

The 79th edition of the Venice International Film Festival came to a close Saturday

The Guardian - UK

Sources deny Harry Styles spat on Chris Pine at the Don’t Worry Darling premiere

The singer turned actor had been the focus of a viral clip that allegedly shows him spitting on his co-star at the Venice film festival

The Independent UK

Colin Farrell receives 13-minute standing ovation at Venice premiere of The Banshees of Inisherin

Irish actor stars alongside Brendan Gleeson in forthcoming drama

The Guardian - UK

Don’t Worry Darling review – panic! Harry Styles drama offers cause for concern

Venice film festival: Styles’s accent is intentionally dodgy, but the rest of Olivia Wilde’s unconvincing tale of dystopian suburbia does not have the same excuse

The Guardian - UK

Other People’s Children review – a heartfelt modern love triangle

Venice film festival: This sweet, sad drama sees a teacher keen to be a mother bonding with her new boyfriend’s daughter, while dealing with the constant presence of his ex

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian director calls for trials of Soviet-era ‘war crimes’

Speaking in Venice, Sergei Loznitsa said situation in Ukraine shows that ‘history repeats itself when we don’t learn from’ it

The Independent UK

Timothée Chalamet cannibal romance movie receives 8-minute standing ovation at Venice Film Festival

Flesh-eating love story received rapturous response following premiere

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